Hospital & Healthcare Management January 31, 2024
Content Team HHMGlobal

The HHS went on to release voluntary cybersecurity objectives for healthcare and public health organizations on January 24, as the sector goes on to grapple with growing large data breaches along with ransomware attacks.

The performance objectives, broken down into essential as well as enhanced safeguards, aim to enable the organizations to safeguard themselves against cyberattacks, enhance their response if an incident takes place, and also lessen the remaining risk after the security measures are applied.

The resources come after the HHS went on to release a concept paper in December 2023 that detailed plans to develop hospital cybersecurity needs by way of Medicare and Medicaid and eventually update the HIPAA rule.

Healthcare data breaches, especially those that come from...

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